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Raising Teens With Diabetes

What you see is what you get.
That could very well be the tagline for a new diabetes book called Raising Teens With Diabetes: A Survival Guide for Parents, the latest volume by passionate D-Mom and advocate Moira McCarthy Stanford (who blogs over at Despite Diabetes). This book stems from her firsthand experience raising her now 21-year-old daughter Lauren, who was diagnosed at the age of six in 1997.
Right from the start, before you…

With self-publishing on the rise, it seems like everyone’s an author these days — and the diabetes community has its share of book-writers of all sorts.
Just skim through the listings over at Amazon. A quick search of “diabetes” brings up 22,000 “new and popular” titles, many of them involving food and diets, but also exercise, lifestyle and personal encounters with this illness. The term “type 1 diabetes” narrows the findings down to 952 books…